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Top-ranked Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic highlight the 96-player list for this summer’s National Bank Open, in Montreal, one year after several top players pulled out of the ATP 1000 tournament.
Sinner and Djokovic will be joined by French Open champion Alexander Zverev and top-ranked Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, currently fourth in the world.
Tennis Canada said 71 of the ATP Tour’s top 72 players have entered the Aug. 1-13 tournament at IGA Stadium.
No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz is the only player absent. The seven-time Grand Slam champion hasn’t played since injuring his right wrist at the Barcelona Open in April, missing the French Open and Wimbledon. Tournament organizers say he will not travel to Montreal.
Sinner, Alcaraz and Djokovic all missed last year’s event, with the 12-day tournament staged just two weeks after Wimbledon. This year’s edition is being staged three weeks following the All England Club finals.
Other notable entries include defending champion and world No. 5 Ben Shelton of the United States and Russia’s Daniil Medvedev.
Montreal’s Auger-Aliassime is coming off a quarterfinal exit at Wimbledon on Tuesday, falling to Djokovic in an epic five-set match that lasted five hours 15 minutes.
Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., seeded 40th, also earned a direct entry into the main draw while No. 88 Gabriel Diallo of Montreal received a main-draw wild card.
Teenage phenom Victoria Mboko, who withdrew from the Toronto event with a knee injury, won the women’s tournament in Montreal last year.
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